Improvement in self-oaucelliig eailway-tickets



Y l wf JOHN DYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 76,311. date/:Z April 7, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-GANGEIILING RAILWAY-TICKETS.

at: tlgehnle nicht tu tu tipa 5l/tants' ,tant :un mit-tintura nt tige time.

TO ALL WIIOM I'I MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN DYER, of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and inthe State of Illinois, have invent-ed anew and improved Self-Oancelling Ticket for Railways, Ferries, and other purposes; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompany ing drawings, making a part of this speciication, in which- Figure 1 represents the edge of the open ticket'.

Figure 2, the same closed.

'Figure 3, the ticket open, showing the face. Y

'Ihe nature of my invention consists in a durable cover, made of paper, pasteboard, or other flexible nintelrial, to which any required number of checks or tickets, graduated in length, and consecutively numbered' or otherwise designated, are firmly fastened in any substantial manner, the shortest check or ticket being lowest in number, and placed at the bottom. The cover containsa part of the contract, and the checks or tickets the remainder, and by detaching cneof the latter, so much ofthe contract as it represented while attached to the cover is cancelled, and it becomes valueless for a fare, but useful as a memorandum to the party issuing it, to whom it serves conclusively to establish the number of fares collected by each of its agents. rIhe checks being all detached, the cover is taken up by the conductor. i

In the annexed drawings, A represents the cover, containing the name of the party issuing tue ticket, together uith the number of rides contained, or any other information deemed useful. B represents the checks or tickets, firmly fastened at O by any method found desirable,'and number or in any other manner designated at D. E represents un additional fastening, of thread, wire, or by other means, as a safeguard against the removal of intermediate checks or tickets.

rIhe advantages possessed by my improvement over those in general use are- First. Detachinmthe check cancels it' and as the arcrnraduated in leneth and conseutivcl numbered,

n 7 t: D f5 or otherwise designated and arranged, the process of collecting fares is rendered more easy, and fewer mistakes and misunderstandings are liable to occur than by the usual method of punching out numbers. It also saves the expense and inconvenience of punches.

Second. .The number or designation of the topniost check shows at a glance the number of fares remaining in the package. I

Third. The tic-liet is more compact and convenient for passengers, and a large number of fares can be combined in one package or ticket, without rendering it ineonvenientlyvbulky for a perte-monnaie or vest-pocket.v

that I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A self-cancelling ticliet, composed of any number of checks, firmly fastened in a flexible cover, containing part of the contract, and which checks are graduated in length, and consecutively numbered, or otherwise designated and arranged, and which, when detached fromvtbe cover, etfectually cancel all obligation represented by them n'hen fastened to the cover, for the purpose and substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand, this 17th day of Februaryg'ISS.

- JOHN Dran.

Witnesses CARL F. W. Lener, Maar M. SMITH. 

